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Reconstructing a women's prison : the Holloway redevelopment project, 1968-88 /

Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. This work describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison from 1968 to 1988.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rock, Paul Elliott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1996.
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology.
Subjects:
HM Prison Holloway > Design and construction.
HM Prison Holloway.
HM Prison Holloway
Reformatories for women > England > London > Case studies.
Female offenders > Rehabilitation > England > London > Case studies.
Women prisoners > Rehabilitation > England > London > Case studies.
Prisons de femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Londres > Cas, Études de.
Prisons > Grande-Bretagne > Londres > Conception et construction > Cas, Études de.
Criminelles > Réhabilitation > Grande-Bretagne > Londres > Cas, Études de.
Prisons de femmes > Angleterre > Londres > Études de cas.
Criminelles > Réhabilitation > Angleterre > Londres > Études de cas.
Female offenders > Rehabilitation
Reformatories for women
Women prisoners > Rehabilitation
England > London
Gevangeniswezen.
Penologie.
Vrouwengevangenissen.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
Electronic books.
Case studies
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Holloway Prison for Women was rebuilt in the expectation that it would revolutionize the treatment of female offenders. This work describes the changes in penal ideology and conceptions of women's criminality as they fed into the design of this new prison from 1968 to 1988.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 360 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, plans
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191682179
0191682179
0198260954
9780198260950